Signatures of precocious unification in orbiting detectors

It has been conjectured that the string and unification scales may be subst antially lower than previously believed, perhaps a few TeV. In scenarios of this type, orbiting detectors such as OWL or AIRWATCH can observe spectacu lar phenomena at trans-GZK energies. We explore measurable signatures of th e hypothesis that trans-GZK air showers ("anomalous showers") are originate d by strongly interacting neutrinos. The results of a MC simulation of such air showers are described. A distinction between proton induced and "anoma lous" showers is possible once a substantial sample of trans-GZK showers be comes available.